On this week’s edition of Exploration, Dr. Robert Lanza discusses the future of biotech and medicine, and Lester Brown talks about the state of the earth.

About the guests:

Robert Lanza, M.D. is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has hundreds of publications and inventions, and over 30 scientific books: among them, “Principles of Tissue Engineering” and “Essentials of Stem Cell Biology,” which are recognized as the definitive references in the field.

Brown is the author or co-author of over 50 books on global environmental issues and his works have been translated into more than forty languages. His most recent book is Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, which was released in September 2012.

Brown emphasizes the geopolitical effects of fast-rising grain prices, noting that “the biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries,” and one that could “bring down civilization.” In Foreign Policy magazine, he describes how the “new geopolitics of food” has, in 2011, already begun to contribute to revolutions and upheaval in various countries.

The recipient of 26 honorary degrees and a MacArthur Fellowship, Brown has been described by the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers.” As early as 1978, in his book The Twenty-Ninth Day, he was already warning of “the various dangers arising out of our manhandling of nature…by overfishing the oceans, stripping the forests, turning land into desert.” In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings “have already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources,” while president Bill Clinton has suggested that “we should all heed his advice.”In 2003 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.

Future of Biotech, State of the Earth

On this week’s edition of Exploration, Dr. Robert Lanza discusses the future of biotech and medicine, and Lester Brown talks about the state of the earth.

About the guests:

Robert Lanza, M.D. is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has hundreds of publications and inventions, and over 30 scientific books: among them, “Principles of Tissue Engineering” and “Essentials of Stem Cell Biology,” which are recognized as the definitive references in the field.

Brown is the author or co-author of over 50 books on global environmental issues and his works have been translated into more than forty languages. His most recent book is Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, which was released in September 2012.

Brown emphasizes the geopolitical effects of fast-rising grain prices, noting that “the biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries,” and one that could “bring down civilization.” In Foreign Policy magazine, he describes how the “new geopolitics of food” has, in 2011, already begun to contribute to revolutions and upheaval in various countries.

The recipient of 26 honorary degrees and a MacArthur Fellowship, Brown has been described by the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers.” As early as 1978, in his book The Twenty-Ninth Day, he was already warning of “the various dangers arising out of our manhandling of nature…by overfishing the oceans, stripping the forests, turning land into desert.” In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings “have already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources,” while president Bill Clinton has suggested that “we should all heed his advice.”In 2003 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.

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